Curtis Lepore

Syracuse.com - 16 Jan 2014
Former Syracuse singer Curtis Lepore has been accused of raping a woman he met through Vine, a video-sharing site where he's racked up millions of followers. TMZ reports Lepore was arrested in October on charges of raping fellow Vine star Jessi Smiles ...

Allentown Morning Call - 14 Mar 2018Lepore, a graduate of the Curtis School of Music, has been the director of music and organist at Central Moravian since 2002. She's an artist-lecturer at Moravian College, serves as the organist and choir director of the Moravian Theological Seminary ...

Daily Beast - 25 Jan 2018
His fans, many of whom never abandoned him after his offensive behavior, were quick to congratulate him on his "lessons learned." "I just watched @LoganPaul's new video. As someone who has personally attempted suicide on 5 different occasions, this ...

RollingStone.com - 21 May 2014
The guy in the photo is Curtis Lepore, a top 10 Viner, and Smiles' ex-boyfriend. Last summer, they became Vine's first reality stars, courting each other so publicly it was hard to believe it wasn't staged. As their online romance unfolded in daily ...

Deadline.com - 26 Oct 2014
When on Monday we broke the story of a new scripted comedy series project produced by Rainn Wilson and his SoulPancake banner featuring five of the most popular personalities on short-form video platform Vine, there was immediate online backlash ...

The Daily Dot - 31 Dec 2016
“Babe, I'm pregnant,” a 20-year-old Jessi Smiles says as she rises from bed, looking down at her distended belly covered by a Miami Dolphins tee. A 30-year-old Curtis Lepore turns over, shifting his sleepy expression from the stomach to her face, and ...

Study Breaks - 14 Dec 2017
The announcement of V2 produced hate towards previous viners, some of these include Lele Pons, any member of MagCon, Curtis Lepore and Logan and Jake Paul, who have been urged to not return by multiple tweets and articles. Old fans of the app clearly ...

Gazette Review - 24 Jun 2017
Hailing from New York, Curtis Lepore rose to fame for his comedic skits on Vine in 2013. Unbeknownst to some, he was actually part of a hard core band called GHOSTxSHIP for many years, prior to embarking on a social media career. Ultimately, it was ...

Wall Street Journal - 13 Jul 2015Curtis Lepore is one of the most popular Vine celebrities. He tells Michael Kofsky how he went from unemployed graphic designer to creator of money-making six-second videos. Editor Picks · 5:32 Up Next. The Young Face of the Russian Protests. 3/8/2018 ...

Daily Mail - 18 Jan 2014
Internet celebrity Curtis Lepore, best known from the video-sharing site Vine, has been charged with raping his former girlfriend and fellow online star Jessi Smiles while she was sleeping. TMZ reported Thursday that Lepore was arrested in October and ...

Tubefilter - 12 Oct 2017
Accordingly, influencers are now posting Instagram Stories twice as often as Snapchat Stories, reports Mediakix, which brokers deals with many top influencers and says it has noticed a decline in Snapchat inquiries. The study examined the number of ...

TeenVogue.com - 06 Jan 2018
In 2014, another popular Viner Curtis Lepore was charged with raping his ex-girlfriend. (The rape charges were eventually dropped, and he pleaded guilty to felony assault.) Despite the controversy, Curtis's YouTube channel today has almost 800,000 ...

The Loop (blog) - 08 Feb 2018
One of the most beautiful parts about having a dog is that they'll make you laugh all the time — even when they're doing the most basic things. So it isn't surprising that dog owners have been eager to take on the new 'egg challenge' on social media ...

Queerty - 13 Mar 2018
“Since the ancient Greeks, men have been dressing in women's clothing on stage. Men portrayed women in the plays of William Shakespeare, and many of us grew up watching Flip Wilson and Milton Beryle on TV, or Tony Curtis and Jack Lemon in the movie ...

Scroll.in - 09 Feb 2018
The internet is always filled with bizarre new challenges but one of the latest fads on social media is a little more endearing. When Carrie and Steven DuComb learned that golden retrievers supposedly have jaws soft enough to “hold an egg in their ...

The Post-Standard - 25 Feb 2014
A rape charge has been dropped against Curtis Lepore after the former Syracuse singer agreed to a plea deal, but he insists that doesn't mean he's guilty. According to TMZ, Lepore appeared in court Friday to plead no contest to felony assault. If he ...

Deadline.com - 21 Oct 2014
From a six-second viral video to a 30-minute TV comedy — that is the route five of the most popular personalities on short-form video platform Vine are taking with Hollywood And Vine, a scripted comedy produced by former The Office star Rainn Wilson ...

Tubefilter - 27 Oct 2014
On October 21st, Rainn Wilson announced Hollywood and Vine, a TV comedy starring five popular Vine personalities. Immediately after he unveiled the project, Wilson received backlash for his decision to cast Curtis Lepore, who was convicted of assault ...

Al Jazeera America (blog) - 28 Jan 2014
Jessi Smiles and Curtis LePore represent a new breed of celebrity: the six-second video star. The platform on which they both made their names, Vine, made its debut in the app store one year ago. Its six-second video restriction apparently tickled a ...